Distributor stand



Jan. 23, 1923..

T. L. RYAN.

DISTRIBUTOR STAND.

FILED SEPT- 8, I921- [II/VE/VTOR J77 mRn EY.

Patented Jan. 23, 19*23.

THOMAS L. RYAN, or manners, INDIANA.

DISTRIBUTOR STAND.

Application filed September 8, 1921. Serial No. 499,357.

stand, and it is equipped with a standard Edison bulb.

The object of the invention is to provide an appliance of this character which is oobeing economically finished and of being equipped in divers ways making easy the use of many diflerent types or standardized electrical appliances such as electric light bulbs, electric light regulators anddiinmers, attachment plugs, extension columns or candles and current taps.

In the construction and use of appliances of the class above referred to, namely,a combination of a stand and a socket, as such devices have been hitherto constructed, it is necessary to use a standard complete electric socket, comprising the usual porcelain and metal interior parts, thefiber insulating sleeve, and the metal outer shell. In the present invention such construction is provided that the metal outer shell may be dispensed with. e

Other important features of utility will be apparent asthe nature of my invention is understood in reading the specification.

The objects of this invention are accomplished by, and the invention is embodied in the new construct-ion combination and arrangement of parts described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The invention is defined in the appended claims.

In the drawings, suitable characters of onomical in construction and is capable of references are applied to the different parts Figure 6 a vertical. central sectional view showing the several interior parts assembled.

Figure 7 is a central sectional view showing the arrangement of a modified form of standard electric socket and Figure 8 is an ensmalled view of the distributor stand equipped with a current tap.

This distributor or lamp stand may be made of sheet metal, or of composition, or preferably, of cast metal such as iron, brass or white metal. It has a flared bottom or base portion as shown, and is of hollow construction. able curvature, their upper portions B being parallel and forming a cylindrical cavity C, the function of which will be presently re ferred to. The outer surface of the stand may be of plain contour, or may be provided with a suitable decoration. Also it will be understood that the standmay be polygonal in cross section. The diameter of the cavity C is slightly greater that the outside diameter of the fiber insulatory sleeve of a standard electric socket. The opening D of, the said cavity is of suitable diameter to permit the insertion therethrough of a socket and its fiber sleeve.

Formed integral with the inner side of wall B are lugs E, preferably three in number. Each of these lugs may be provided with a stud portion E which facilitates the retention of the socket sleeve at central position and provides a seating for the said sleeve at which it may be retained securely in position. At a suitable distance from the bottom of the stand body, are the integrally formed lugs F. These lugs have the recesses F and their extent toward each other is such as to provide a space between them to accommodate a connecting element presently to be referred to.

The simplicity of construction of this stand is readily apparent. It is capable of being cast economically and in quantity, and little, if any, machine work is required to make the casting ready to receive the interior parts. In completing the stand as an article of manufacture, the external surface of the stand is smoothed or polished and then treated to a coat of enamel or electroplating or other finishing materials.

The work of assembling of the electrical parts is very simple. The preferred form of socket to be used in this stand is that The body walls A are of suitshown in Figure 6, and in which the parts are contained in a cylindrical sleeve 1 made of fiber or other suitable insulatory material. A socket of this type has the usual terminals 2 and 2, and an arm 3 having its end bent at an angle and being provided with an eye that is internally threaded, and which eye may be disposed at position substantially central of the stand.

In assembling, the socket, provided with the usual insulated parallel cord el havin its wires connected to the terminals and a, is simply inserted in the cavity C; the lower edge of thesleeve 1 resting on the lugs E and at registration with the studs E The cord't is then passed through the hole A and at its free end is connected a standard attachment plug (not shown).

A rod 6 each end of which is threaded constitutes a connecting member between the socket and the stand, its upper end being screwed into the eye of the arm 3. The lower end of the rod 6 occupies position in the space between the lugs F, so that when the nut 7 is screwed on the lower end of the rod, and against the lugs F, the sleeve or fiber body shell of the socket is drawn to and retained at tight engagementwith the seats therefor provided by the lugs E. The socket so disposed and retained constitutes a receptacle into which the base of any standard electric lamp or plug at achment may be screwed.

In the modification shown at Figure '7 is shown the adaptation of the stand to the use of a socket switch of the class comprising the key-socket type. In this adaptation the key shaft 8 is detachable and is inserted through a suitable hole 10 in the wall B. In the use of this type of electric socket the opening Dis of diameter sutlicient to pern'iit the insertion of the fiber sleeve 9. To adapt the stand to accommodate a standard key socket,or a push through type of socket, in which the key shaft or push studs respectively are not detachable, vertical openings in the walls Bare provided so that the socket may be lowered to the position shown.

By this invention the standard electric base connection C is available as substantially an integral part of the stand. A

feature of importance is that vthe head or top portion of the stand constitutes the other shell or housing for the fiber sleeve and is i adapted to decorative adornment in keeping with the contour and design of the stand proper. The socket so provided is not only easily available for the application to use of the ele'ctric bulb solely as a lighting device, as shown in Figure 1, but is available and of utility'for the application to use of electric current regulators or dimmers so I that a table lamp capable of varied degrees ofillumination is-ailorded. By the use of a column'type extension a lamp stand of compr sing shades made of parchment, sill-z or of glass.

By the application of a plug oi the rurrent-tap type, as shown in Figure 8. thenbe light from the bulb, and the current may be delivered also to one or more electric appliances. lVith the rapidly increasing use of electric appliances, such as the electric iron, grill, toaster, sweeper, tau, heater, and other devices too numerous to mention, the utility of having a stand from which distribution of the electric current may be had from desirable locations. is easily apparent.

With the attachment plug of the cord 4.- applied to the electric current source, either in av lighting fixture, or at an outlet at the wall, or the base-board, or other suitable place, the distributor stand may be disposed at a desirable location with reference to the workers needs for illumination or power.

lVhere illumination directly from the distributor stand is not desired. a multiple outlet plug of any standard make may be used, thereby making possible the connecting up for simultaneous use a number of electric appliances.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is

1. In an electric distributor stand, a shell having a base and an electric socket-receiving cavity adiacent the upper end oi the shell opening through said upper end. series of lugs in the shell at the bottom of the cavity having approximately L-shaped seats in their upper sides, opposed base lugs in the shell below the first named lugs, an electric socket in the cavity seated in the seats 01. the first'named lugs, depending arm carried by the socket and having a threaded aperture alined with the space between the base lugs, a rod having threaded ends one of which is engaged in the aperture of the arm and the other of which passes through the space between the base lugs, and a nut on the last named rod end engaged with and beneath the base lugs.

2. In an electric distributor stand, a shell having a base and an open top. lugs in the open top integral with the shell, an electric socket in the open top seated on the In and having a depending arm with a threaded aperture, base lugs in the shell integral therewith and spaced below the first named lugs. said base lugs being spaced apart, a rod threaded into the aperture of the arm and extending; through the space between the base lugs, and a nut threaded on the rod and engaged with and beneath the base lugs.

3.111 an electric distributor stand, a cast shell having a base formed to seat on a supporting surface so as to hold the shell in a vertical position and having an open top, seat cast integral with the shell and located Within the open top, an electric socketa said top being formed of a diameter to conform ably receive the electric socket therein so as to allow the socket to directly engage on and With the seat spaced abutment members cast tit integral With the shell and located above and adjacent to the base a rod threaded. at its lower end means to connect the upper end of the rod to the electric socket so as to allow the rod and the socket to be placed in. position in the shell and the threaded end of the rod passed through the space between the members, and a nut on the threaded end of the rod engaged with said members to hold the parts in their aforementioned positions. In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

THOMAS L. RYAN. 

